The May meeting will be a special, members-only screening of BEE PEOPLE, a documentary film made by Women Who Bee President Leslie Ellis and featuring local “Bee Guru” Gregg McMahan – as well as several other Colorado-area beekeepers.

It’s important that you RSVP as the room is small and can seat a max of 60 people. Please bring a snack to share if your schedule permits; we’ll supply cups/plates/cutlery and wine and water. Please RSVP to Leslie@EllisEdits.com.

Format will be same as always: First a “round robin” of “how’s your bees?”, then the screening. Note that both activities may take us past the 9P end time. Also: Bring your calendars so we can zero in on some Spring/Summer field trips.

DUES

It is time to pay our 2013 DUES!

Annual dues for Women Who Bee are $20 if you don’t already belong to another club that is affiliated with the Colorado State Beekeeping Association (www.csba.org). If you do belong to another club that is already paying your state fee, then annual membership for our club is $13. Membership dues are good for a calendar year from date of payment. Dues must be paid by cash or check. If you are paying with a check, make the check out to “Susan Markley”, “cash” or leave it blank.

Dues are primarily used to pay for refreshments at our meetings and to help pay transportation costs for visiting speakers.

We’re headed up to Beth Conrey’s apiary in lieu of a seated program this month. Beth is the President of the Colorado State Beekeeping Association and has 60 hives. Because of availability and people’s schedules, we’re doing this ON TUESDAY, JUNE 18, and there will be no meeting on Wednesday, June 26

Details to follow but generally speaking we’ll meet at To Bee or Not to Bee at 5P on 6/18. It’s about an hour to her place, in Berthoud.

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DUES

It is time to pay our 2013 DUES!

Annual dues for Women Who Bee are $20 if you don’t already belong to another club that is affiliated with the Colorado State Beekeeping Association (www.csba.org). If you do belong to another club that is already paying your state fee, then annual membership for our club is $13. Membership dues are good for a calendar year from date of payment. Dues must be paid by cash or check. If you are paying with a check, make the check out to “Susan Markley”, “cash” or leave it blank.

Dues are primarily used to pay for refreshments at our meetings and to help pay transportation costs for visiting speakers.

The CSBA Traveling Road Show will be coming to town! Current President Beth Conrey and past President Terry Dorsey will perform hive inspections for CO Women Who Bee members. We will NOT be meeting on July 31st.

We will meet at To Bee or Not to Bee at 10:30 and have a brief discussion on mite testing then head to the field to do some! Bring your bee suits and some lunch stuff to share.

The field, in this case, is at my place. Eastbound 6th Ave & Locust — near Lowry. We have a 2-frame extractor, and gladly volunteer it and our garage to harvest your honey frames! Because you are all so good at bringing snacks, feel free to bring snacks.

Date: Sunday, August 25. Time: TBD depending on how many frames need harvesting. Details to come, but, note that Terry said he might come down to lend a hand. Cool!

***If you have Langstroth frames with capped honey:****

1. Bring them BEE-LESS (hubby is enthusiastic but allergic in a big way). It helps to put the frames in a covered container.

2. BYOB – bring your own bucket. Note that you will also need a fine-net filter, to filter out the bee parts (legs, etc). But you can do that part later. For purposes of honey extraction, bring your frames, your bucket, and no bees.

If you are seriously fearless, I could use some help with our feral (but super active) hive. (Sigh.)

May your bees have a productive August nectar/pollen season! Remember to test/treat your hives for mitesby coating them with powdered sugar. I use a flour sifter. No they don’t like it, but, mitigation matters.

Please RSVP to me if you’re coming on the 25th and how many frames you’re bringing, ok? Thanks!

The last meeting of the year will be a members only* viewing of “More Than Honey”, a film by Markus Imhoof.

This film has won a lot of awards and is very compelling. What’s weakening our bee populations world wide? Come watch the movie and see what the experts think.

“If bees were to disappear from the globe, mankind would only have four years left to live.” Albert Einstein

Please bring a snack and a beverage to share if you have time and are so inclined.

*We’re not trying to be exclusive; the screening room available to us has limited seating. Not sure if you’re a member? Email Stephanie (stephaniewilsonthomas@gmail.com) and she’ll tell you if you’ve paid your dues. Want to be a member? Bring your dues to the meeting on the 30th! $20 annual dues ($13 if you are a dues paying member of another state affiliated bee keeping organization).

No meeting November and December due to 3rd Wednesday being so close to holidays.